#this doesn't tell you that saavik is in this story too and honestly? that was an inspired choice

[trillscienceofficer]

“Infinity” (The Lives of Dax) Susan Wright Test pilot Torias takes out a shuttle with an experimental drive system. Marco [Palmieri, editor of The Lives of Dax anthology] noted, “In the episode ‘Rejoined’, audiences learned that the short, passionate marriage of Torias and Neilani [sic!] was so powerful an experience that their later incarnations, Jadzia and Lenara, were strongly tempted to renew that relationship in defiance of the Trill taboo against reassociation. That became the emotional core of ‘Infinity’.” Susan [Wright] said, “I wanted to give some backstory as to why Dax was willing to break with Trill tradition. I wanted to write a story that was passionately on-edge, infused with danger as Torias underwent the test flight that killed him.”

From “Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion” by Jeff Ayers (2006)